Name	Creative Scotland Awards
Description	Each year, up to ten established artists with a record of major achievement in their field are awarded £30,000 to provide them with a unique opportunity to realise their imaginative ideas in a major project. The Award may also be used to experiment, or to discover new talents. Each artist also receives a beautiful glass award created by Scottish glass artist Anita Pate. Guidelines:http://www.creativescotland.org.uk/editor/GetFile.aspx?ItemId=277
Deadline	28 October 2006
URL	http://www.creativescotland.org.uk/Apply.aspx
Prizes	Your project should be realized within the ￡30,000 award. If the project will cost more than ￡30,000, you will need to confirm that all your other funding is in place before we can make any payments.
Eligibility	Only individual artists can apply. It is possible to involve other artists in the project, but the application must come from a single individual. Only artists who can demonstrate a major record of achievement in their artistic work should apply. Applicants must have lived in Scotland for the past year and plan to remain here for at least another two years.

Name	George Bennett Fellowship
Description	The purpose of the George Bennett Fellowship is to provide time and freedom from material considerations to a person seriously contemplating or pursuing a career as a writer. It provides for one academic year a stipend (at present $10,000), as well as housing and meals for this person and family, at Academy expense. As Writer-in-Residence the person shall live in Exeter and, in return for stipend and housing, shall (besides carrying out his or her own literary projects) make his or her self and talents available in an informal and unofficial way generally to students interested in writing and, more specifically, to students in English classes and to members of student literary organizations.  The Writer shall not be considered a member of the Academy faculty; she or he shall have no regular or prescribed duties — shall not, for instance, teach (or take classes for an extended period), shall not be asked to coach athletics or dramatics or debating, shall not be a formal adviser to any Academy organization. The Academy house provided shall not contain students. The nature and extent of the Writer's involvement with Academy purposes and with Academy students are to be determined (except for the above prohibitions) more by the Writer's own interest and good will than by Academy demand. During the tenure of the Fellowship the Writer shall not have any other full- or part-time job, nor be a degree candidate in any college or graduate school.
Deadline	By December 1
URL	http://www.exeter.edu/english/bennett.html
Prizes	It provides for one academic year a stipend (at present $10,000)
Eligibility	Open to any writer

Name	David T. K. Wong Fellowship
Description	The purpose of the Fellowship is the promotion of excellence in the writing of literature providing the opportunity to further develop their literary talent. It will be awarded to a writer planning to produce a work of prose fiction in English which deals seriously with some aspect of life in the Far East (Brunei, Burma, Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Laos, Macau, Malaysia, Mongolia, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam). The Fellowship will be awarded annually, and the value will be ￡25,000 per year
Deadline	1st October each year
URL	http://www.uea.ac.uk/eas/fellowships/wong/wongterms.shtml
Prizes	￡25,000 per year
Eligibility	Open to any writer

Name	Cec ArtsLink Projects
Description	ArtsLink Projects provides support to US artists, curators, presenters, and arts organizations undertaking projects in Central Europe, Russia and Eurasia. Applicants must be working with an artist or organization in that region and projects should be designed to benefit participants and audiences in both the US and the host country. In 2006, applications will be accepted from individual artists, presenters, and non-profit arts organizations working in dance, music, theater and literature.
Deadline	Application Deadline: November 7, 2005
Prizes	ArtsLink Projects awards will generally range from $2,500 to $10,000 depending on the project budget. Awards will seldom cover the applicant's total project expenses
Eligibility	Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, Mongolia, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan

Ezines are hot. It seems every small business owner and independent professional on the web has an ezine these days. And for good reason. They continue to be one of the easiest, cheapest small business marketing techniques available.

But if you don't know what you're doing, your ezines may get caught in a spam filter or end up in a deleted items folder without ever being opened. There are some simple steps you can take to make sure your ezines get through to your readers.